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A 4K Tour of the Moon with NASA

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Take a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft.

As the visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and south poles, NASA highlights interesting features, sites, and information gathered on the lunar terrain.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/David Ladd

 

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The Great Outdoors

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Photograph by NASA

 

NASA astronaut Robert Curbeam works on the International Space Station’s S1 truss during the space shuttle Discovery’s STS-116 mission in Dec. 2006. European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang (out of frame) was his partner in the 6-hour, 36-minute spacewalk.

During Discovery’s mission to the station, the STS-116 crew continued construction of the orbital outpost, adding the P5 spacer truss segment during the first of four spacewalks. The next two spacewalks rewired the station’s power system, preparing it to support the station’s final configuration and the arrival of additional science modules. A fourth spacewalk was added to allow the crew to retract solar arrays that had folded improperly.

Selected by NASA in December 1994, Curbeam reported to the Johnson Space Center in March 1995. He is a veteran of three space flights: STS-85 in 1997; STS-98 in 2001; and STS-116 in 2006, and has logged more than 900 hours in space. [written by Yvette Smith]

 

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Putting the Pillars of Creation Into Perspective

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Pillars of Creation is one of the most famous photographs ever taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. In this amended version by reddit user TopalthePilot we get an appreciation for their amazing scale.

Per Wikipedia:

Pillars of Creation are elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, specifically the Serpens constellation, some 6,500–7,000 light years from Earth. They are so named because the gas and dust are in the process of creating new stars, while also being eroded by the light from nearby stars that have recently formed.
 
Taken on April 1, 1995, the astronomers responsible for the photo were Jeff Hester and Paul Scowen from Arizona State University. The region was rephotographed by ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory in 2011, and again by the Hubble in 2014 with a newer camera (seen below).

 

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Photograph by ESO

 

Three-colour composite mosaic image of the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16, or NGC 6611), based on images obtained with the Wide-Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory. At the centre, the “Pillars of Creation” can be seen. This wide-field image shows not only the central pillars, but also several others in the same star-forming region, as well as a huge number of stars in front of, in, or behind the Eagle Nebula. The cluster of bright stars to the upper right is NGC 6611, home to the massive and hot stars that illuminate the pillars. The “Spire” — another large pillar — is in the middle left of the image.

 

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Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

 

The towering pillars are about 5 light-years tall and bathed in the blistering ultraviolet light from a grouping of young, massive stars located off the top of the image. Streamers of gas can be seen bleeding off the pillars as the intense radiation heats and evaporates it into space. Denser regions of the pillars are shadowing material beneath them from the powerful radiation. Stars are being born deep inside the pillars, which are made of cold hydrogen gas laced with dust. The pillars are part of a small region of the Eagle Nebula, a vast star-forming region 6,500 light-years from Earth. The colors in the image highlight emission from several chemical elements. Oxygen emission is blue, sulfur is orange, and hydrogen and nitrogen are green.

 

Rocket Creates Sky Ripples When It Passes Through Ice Crystals in a Cirrus Cloud

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In this rare and amazing amateur footage, a NASA rocket is seen going supersonic just as it is passing through ice crystals in a cirrus cloud, creating ripples in the sky that looks like shockwaves.

 

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Full Disk Image of Earth’s Western Hemisphere Taken May 20, 2018

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Photograph by NOAA/NASA

 

The GOES-17 satellite took this stunning, full-disk snapshot of Earth’s Western Hemisphere from its checkout position at 12:00 p.m. EDT on May 20, 2018. GOES-17 observes Earth from an equatorial vantage point approximately 22,300 miles above the surface.

This imagery was created using two visible bands (blue and red) and one near-infrared “vegetation” band that are functional with the current cooling system performance. The imagery also incorporates input from one of the ABI’s “longwave” infrared bands that is functional during a portion of the day despite the cooling system issue.

When combined as a “GeoColor” image, depicting the Earth in vivid detail and colors intuitive to human vision, these bands provide valuable information for monitoring dust, haze, smoke, clouds, fog, winds and vegetation. ABI imagery also provides information on cloud motion, helping meteorologists monitor and forecast severe weather and hurricanes. The improved resolution and faster scanning ability of the instrument compared to the previous generation of GOES allow forecasters to more rapidly detect and analyze storms as they are developing and intensifying.

If you want to see the full 10848 x 10688 pixel resolution image, click here.

 

 

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The Only Person To Ever Golf on the Moon

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On February 6, 1971 Alan Shepard became the first and only person to ever golf on the moon. To pull off the feat, Shepard used a modified six iron with the club head affixed to the handle of a ‘contingency sample return device’.

Shepard duffed the first ball, but estimates his second shot travelled more than 200 yards. You can watch the historic moment in the embedded video below.

 

 

 

After returning to Earth Shepard donated the club to the USGA Museum in 1974. A replica can also be found at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.

 

 

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The modified golf club used by Shepard on the moon, and the sock he smuggled it aboard in

 

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The collapsible club made by Jack Harden

 

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Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. sits in his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, ready for launch. Just 23 days earlier, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first man in space. Image Credit: NASA

 

On May 5, 1961 Shepard became the second person to ever travel into space and the first American to achieve the feat. He was bested by 23 days by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

Shepard would go on to become Commander of the Apollo 14 mission where he became the 5th person to ever set foot on the lunar surface and of course the first and only person to play golf on the Moon. Shepard, along with astronaut Edgar Mitchell, spent a total of 33.5 hours on the Moon.

 

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Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr. (right), commander, and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot. Image Credit: NASA

 

This Might Be the Best Timed Shot in Television History

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James Burke had only one chance to nail this scene and boy did he deliver. A clip from the 1978 BBC television show Connections, season 1, episode 8, “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry”

 

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Hurricane Florence Looks Terrifying from Space (11 Photos)

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ESA/Alexander Gerst

 

At approximately 400 miles/640 km in diameter (roughly the size of ‘4 Ohios‘), Hurricane Florence is making its way to the continental US and is currently forecasted to reach land Thursday evening and ‘stall’ over North and South Carolina until Sunday.

 

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According to the National Weather Service, Florence is expected ‘to produce total rainfall accumulations of 20 to 30 inches (50-76 cm) with isolated maximum amounts of 40 inches (101 cm).’ With this amount of rainfall the potential for severe flooding is high.

The winds and low pressure of Florence could also produce a tsunami-like storm surge, with ocean water rising up to 20 feet higher than sea level in some areas. As of Tuesday nearly 1.7 million people in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia have been warned to evacuate the coast.

Below you will find images taken from the International Space Station and the NOAA GOES-East Satellite that give a terrifying sense of the size of Hurricane Florence.

 

 

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NOAA/GOES-East Satellite

 

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NOAA/GOES-East Satellite

 

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ESA/Alexander Gerst

 

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ESA/Alexander Gerst

 

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NASA

 

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Cameras outside the International Space Station captured a stark and sobering view of Hurricane Florence the morning of Sept. 12 as it churns across the Atlantic in a west-northwesterly direction with winds of 130 miles an hour. The National Hurricane Center forecasts additional strengthening for Florence before it reaches the coastline of North Carolina and South Carolina early Friday, Sept. 14.

 

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Alexander Gerst Captured Some Incredible Shots of Typhoon Trami from Space

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European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Alexander Gerst recently shared a series of incredible images of Typhoon Trami from the International Space Station, where he is currently serving as Station Commander for Expedition 57.

Trami was originally a category 5 super typhoon but has since weakened to a category 3 hurricane with sustained wind speeds of approximately 195 km/h (121 mph) as it prepares to make landfall in the Ryuku islands (southwest) of Japan this Friday.

According to CNN, ‘Trami comes on the heels of Super Typhoon Mangkhut, which cut a swath of destruction through northern Luzon in the Philippines less than two weeks ago.’

Check out the incredible images of Trami below which Gerst described, ‘as if somebody pulled the planet’s gigantic plug.’

 

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Photograph by Alexander Gerst

 

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Photograph by Alexander Gerst

 

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Photograph by Alexander Gerst

 

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Photograph by Alexander Gerst

 

NASA Scientists Find Perfectly Rectangular Iceberg in Antarctica

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NASA scientists recently spotted a perfectly rectangular iceberg floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. They added that the iceberg’s sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf.

In an interview with Live Science, NASA scientist Kelly Brunt explains:

 

We get two types of icebergs: We get the type that everyone can envision in their head that sank the Titanic, and they look like prisms or triangles at the surface and you know they have a crazy subsurface. And then you have what are called ‘tabular icebergs.’
 
Tabular icebergs are wide and flat, and long, like sheet cake. They split from the edges of ice shelves — large blocks of ice, connected to land but floating in the water surrounding iced-over places like Antarctica.
 
Tabular icebergs form through a process that’s a bit like a fingernail growing too long and cracking off at the end. They’re often rectangular and geometric as a result.

 

You can read the full article on Live Science and check out @NASA_ICE on Twitter for more icy goodness.

 

 

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When NASA Has a Pumpkin Carving Contest Expect Over-Engineered Goodness

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Once a year, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California take a break from building robots that explore the solar system to building over-engineered jack-o’-lanterns.

 

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from NASA JPL’s 2016 pumpkin carving contest


 

Now in its seventh year, the unofficial pumpkin carving contest gives engineers a chance to flex their creative muscles and bond as a team. The rules are simple: no planning, carving or competing during work hours.

Below you will find some highlights from this year’s contest as well as some interesting entries from years past. You can see the full album on NASA JPL’s Flickr page.

 

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

 

 

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

 

 

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

 

 

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

 

 

 

 

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A pumpkin flies, after being engineered by Mike Meacham and his JPL team in the 2017 contest

 

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JPL engineers created a spinning pumpkin carousel in the 2016 Halloween contest.

 

 

Someone Added Benny Hill to Sped Up Moon Footage and It’s Perfect

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The Internet remains undefeated.

 

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NASA’s Going Back to the Moon and They Made a Great Hype Video For It

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NASA’s returning to the Moon to stay, and preparing to go beyond. With a voiceover by Mike Rowe, NASA looks back on 60 amazing years and wants to get you inspired for what’s to come.

 

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A Real Time 4K Journey Around Earth from Orbit

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“Orbit” is a real-time reconstruction of time-lapse photography taken on board the International Space Station by NASA’s Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit. The structure of the film is built around the world of Phaeleh’s last three albums: Lost Time, Illusion of the Tale, and Somnus.

According to the creator, Seán Doran, the tone and pacing of each track influenced the choice of material used. Typically each time-lapse sequence was photographed at 1 frame per second. Each sequence was processed in Photoshop. A dirtmap was made in order to repair dust, blemishes and hot pixel artifacts that would otherwise confuse the re-timing phase of the workflow resulting in strobes and distracting blurs. Image processing techniques were used to emphasize features on the Earth’s surface. Each sequence consists of a number of layers that when masked, processed and blended correctly produce the final look of each shot.

To make sure each sequence has been recreated to the highest level of accuracy he referenced time-stamps on the first and last frame in the sequence and used frame interpolation software to produce the other 59 frames. The length of the film is exactly the same as that of ISS to orbit the Earth, 92 minutes and 39 seconds.

 

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An Infinity Earth Puzzle With No Edges or Fixed Shape (12 Photos)

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Puzzle by Nervous System

 

Nervous System has designed this incredible 442-piece, infinity puzzle of Earth with no edges or fixed shape.

Infinitely configurable, this puzzle is based on photographs from NASA’s Earth Observatory and transformed into an area-preserving icosahedral map projection with the topology of a sphere.

Made from laser cut, custom birch plywood, this amazing puzzle is available by Nervous System directly on their website.

Learn more about the puzzle design below. For a more detailed explanation of the design check out this blog post by Nervous System.

[via Kottke]

 

 

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Puzzle by Nervous System

 

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A classic map imposes distortions and orientations that reflect our preconceived notions of the world. The Mercator projection, which is the map we are most familiar with, unrolls the globe into a rectangle with even spacing of latitude and longitude, inflating Greenland into a massive tundra and smearing Antarctica into an unrecognizable white smudge at the bottom. It makes it seem like the Arctic is impassably vast, when actually flying over it is the fastest way to get to Europe from the US. More subtly, it reinforces the idea of a world split into West and East. Even a true globe typically has a fixed North-South axis, forcing us into a certain viewpoint.

 

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Puzzle by Nervous System

 

The Earth puzzle is based on type of map called a polyhedral projection, where the sphere is projected onto a shape with planar faces and then unfolded flat. In this case, the globe is projected onto an icosahedron, a 20 sided shape of equilateral triangles. This reduces the distortion seen in most maps.

 

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Puzzle by Nervous System

 

The vertices of the icosahedron do not lay on land. The vertices are the only fixed point of the puzzle, and a seam must pass through them in order to make the puzzle flat. By putting the vertices in the ocean, it means all continents can be assembled into continuous shapes.

 

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Puzzle by Nervous System

 

Growing the Puzzle Pieces in 3D: The puzzle piece edges grow, lengthening, until they collide, pushing each other into contorted shapes. Because the puzzle pieces are growing on a 3D surface, Nervous System had to unfold them to a flat pattern so they could be turned into a jigsaw puzzle.

 

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Puzzle by Nervous System

 

The Earth Puzzle can be assembled into countless shapes because it has the topology of a sphere and pieces wrap around with a rotation.

 

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Puzzle by Nervous System

 

The Earth Puzzle includes 16 figure pieces shaped like animals indigenous to different parts of the world: a kiwi on New Zealand, an alpaca in South America, a giraffe and rhino in Africa, and different whales and marine animals throughout the ocean.

 

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Puzzle by Nervous System

 

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Puzzle by Nervous System

 

To learn more about the puzzle and how it was designed, check out this detailed blog post by Nervous System

 

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Puzzle by Nervous System

 

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“Travelled 300 Million Miles, Took This Pic”

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The Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC), located on the robotic arm of NASA’s InSight lander, took this picture of the Martian surface on Nov. 26, 2018, the same day the spacecraft touched down on the Red Planet. The camera’s transparent dust cover is still on in this image, to prevent particulates kicked up during landing from settling on the camera’s lens. This image was relayed from InSight to Earth via NASA’s Odyssey spacecraft, currently orbiting Mars.

InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to give the Red Planet its first thorough checkup since it formed 4.5 billion years ago. It is the first outer space robotic explorer to study in-depth the “inner space” of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.

The lander uses cutting edge instruments, to delve deep beneath the surface and seek the fingerprints of the processes that formed the terrestrial planets. It does so by measuring the planet’s “vital signs”: its “pulse” (seismology), “temperature” (heat flow), and “reflexes” (precision tracking). [source]

 

 

NASA’s InSight Mars lander acquired this image of the area in front of the lander using its lander-mounted, Instrument Context Camera (ICC). This image was acquired on Nov. 26, 2018, Sol 0 of the InSight mission where the local mean solar time for the image exposures was 13:34:21. Each ICC image has a field of view of 124 x 124 degrees.

InSight touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile (458-million-kilometer) journey from Earth. It’s mission on Mars is targeted to last two years. While the mission on Mars has just begun, the successful touchdown on the red planet was a huge accomplishment. It marks the eighth time in human history that we have successfully landed on Mars.

 

 

“We hit the Martian atmosphere at 12,300 mph (19,800 kilometers per hour), and the whole sequence to touching down on the surface took only six-and-a-half minutes,” said InSight project manager Tom Hoffman at JPL. “During that short span of time, InSight had to autonomously perform dozens of operations and do them flawlessly — and by all indications that is exactly what our spacecraft did.”

 

 

Hubble’s Latest Capture of Globular Star Cluster NGC 1898

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This glittering ball of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1898, which lies toward the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud — one of our closest cosmic neighbors. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy that hosts an extremely rich population of star clusters, making it an ideal laboratory for investigating star formation.

Discovered in November 1834 by British astronomer John Herschel, NGC 1898 has been scrutinized numerous times by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Today we know that globular clusters are some of the oldest known objects in the universe and that they are relics of the first epochs of galaxy formation. While we already have a pretty good picture on the globular clusters of the Milky Way — still with many unanswered questions — our studies on globular clusters in nearby dwarf galaxies just started. The observations of NGC 1898 will help to determine whether their properties are similar to the ones found in the Milky Way, or if they have different features, due to being in a different cosmic environment.

This image was taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Text: European Space Agency (ESA)

 

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Mars Lander Captures Haunting Sound of Martian Winds

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Listen to Martian wind blow across NASA’s InSight lander. The spacecraft’s seismometer and air pressure sensor picked up vibrations from 10-15 mph (16-24 kph) winds as they blew across Mars’ Elysium Planitia on Dec. 1, 2018.

The seismometer readings are in the range of human hearing, but are nearly all bass and difficult to hear on laptop speakers and mobile devices. We provide the original audio and a version pitched up by two octaves to make them audible on mobile devices. Playback is suggested on a sound system with a subwoofer or through headphones. Readings from the air pressure sensor have been sped up by a factor of 100 times to make them audible. For full-length uncompressed .wav files, visit NASA.gov/sounds

For more about the InSight mission, visit mars.nasa.gov/insight .

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CNES/IPGP/Imperial College/Cornell

 

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I Have No Words for This Astronaut POV of an ISS Spacewalk

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Join NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik as he embarks on an ISS Spacewalk complete with jaw-dropping views of Earth. Now that’s a day at work you’ll remember forever.

Randy “Komrade” Bresnik was selected as an astronaut in 2004. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps in May 1989. During his military career, he became an F/A-18 Test Pilot and was eventually deployed to Kuwait to fly combat missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. A veteran of STS-129, he has also trained as a Cave-a-naut with the European Space Agency to test living deep beneath the Earth’s surface as well as an Aquanaut for NASA’s Extreme Environment Mission Operation (NEEMO) 19. Bresnik most recently served as the Commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 53 and flight engineer for Expedition 52.

 

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What the World Looks Like From the International Space Station

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Compiled and edited (and color graded, denoised, deflickered, stabilized) by Bruce W. Berry Jr, all of 4K video and timelapse sequences were taken by the astronauts onboard the ISS (NASA/ESA). In the video description on Vimeo, Bruce adds:

Some interesting facts about the ISS: The ISS maintains an orbit above the earth with an altitude of between 330 and 435 km (205 and 270 miles). The ISS completes 15.54 orbits per day around the earth and travels at a speed of 27,600 km/h; 17,100 mph).
 
The yellow line that you see over the earth is Airgolw/Nightglow. Airglow/Nightglow is a layer of nighttime light emissions caused by chemical reactions high in Earth’s atmosphere. A variety of reactions involving oxygen, sodium, ozone, and nitrogen result in the production of a very faint amount of light (Keck A and Miller S et al. 2013).

 

For a list of locations in order of their appearance, check out the video description on Vimeo.

 

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